I loved Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto! I laughed many times, and it was also touching and annoying and stressful and nail-biting and everything else a good summer novel should be. This was a perfect book to rest my poor brain after the death-focused summer (events and readings) I've had... Lire la Suite →

Ce livre m'a laissée sur ma faim! Enfin, pas littéralement, parce qu'il m'a surtout donné envie de manger. Mais la description du bouquin n'a pas tenue ses promesses, hélas. C'est l'histoire d'une jeune femme qui prépare son mariage avec son fiancé, mais deux semaines avant le mariage, le fiancé lui révèle quelque chose de terrible.... Lire la Suite →

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty, is a fascinating book and I absolutely loved it! The author, who is a mortician, tells the story of how she started working in a mortuary and then went to "death school" to learn how to embalm dead people. This sounds gloomy and depressing, but she talks... Lire la Suite →

The Celebrants, by Steven Rowley, (narrated very nicely by the author,) tells the story of six friends, Alex, Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle, as they go through the ups and downs of their lives over about three decades. They became friends in university, where one of them died. That death spurs the idea of... Lire la Suite →

Absolution, by Alice McDermott, tells the story of three American women: Charlene, the wife of a businessman sent to Vietnam in the early sixties, Tricia, the wife an engineer also sent to Vietnam, and Charlene's daughter. The first 7 hours of the book are told by Tricia, the next 2 hours are told by Charlene's... Lire la Suite →